Wednesday 6 February 2013

Daddy, what did YOU do in the Class War?

Bit of a Golden Oldie this one, as I did it last year, or maybe even the year before... Anyway, be that as it may, there is a famous World War One recruiting poster called Daddy, what did YOU do in the Great War? A little girl sits on her pensive father's knee asking him that very question as her brother plays with toy soldiers on the floor. The implication is clear - sign-up and kill the Hun so that one day you can look your children in their eyes and say you did the right thing! You can see the original here. Some time ago it prompted me to wonder what Nick Clegg would tell his children one day, and this bit of Photoshoppery was the result...


Tuesday 5 February 2013

Peter Bone(head) MP

So at long last gay marriage is now legal, though not without the Tories showing - as if evidence were needed - that they truly are still the Nasty Party, half of them abstaining rather than sully themselves with the act  of allowing sodomites and carpet-lickers to tie the knot. One of the leading anti-gay marriage campaigners was Peter Bone MP, who memorably described gay marriage as 'completely nuts.' Scientific analysis attempts to uncover the reasons for his antipathy, with a notable lack of success apart, perhaps, from providing a modicum of amusement...

 

Monday 4 February 2013

Hello Dicky...

So they've discovered the bones of Richard III under a car park in Leicester. Well, somebody's got to do it, I suppose... My reaction:


Friday 1 February 2013

Goodbye Nipper...

Nipper is, of course, the little dog sat in front of the gramophone listening to His Master's Voice. News of failed company HMV's charmingly casual sacking of hundreds of its workers and their revenge via Twitter led to this venture into editorial cartooning...